Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Please have a look at the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-diff-media.html esp. section 2.13.1 The ISO you downloaded cannot be used for offline (CD-ROM based) installation. It is intended to pull install files from the Internet. Download at least the first full cd. Download all the CDs if you plan to install packages from the disks. Bear in mind 6.2-RELEASE is now a years old, and the packages in the CD are quite aged. There are other methods of getting updated programs once the base system is installed. However as a newbie getting a first feel of the system this is not terribly important. Please make sure you read the excellent handbook. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fw: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop
Try to burn a new cd/dvd and burn it at a lower speed. It might be that the cd/dvd isn't 100%. cheers On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 00:17 -0800, Joseph Eaton wrote: More precisely. I do select the elements I want (All and then Exit and then Install from CD-ROM and then some files flash before my eyes and then I come to a screen that says: User Confirmation Requested and below that Unable to transfer the base distribution from adc0 and on the next line Do you want to try to retrieve it again? and then at the bottom Yes or No and I can never retrieve it successfully or exit successfully. Thanks again for your help. - Forwarded Message From: Joseph Eaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, January 6, 2008 11:56:49 PM Subject: help with installation of 6.2 release i386 on older HP desktop Thanks in advance for your help. I am a newbie trying to install FreeBSD for the first time. I have an HP desktop computer with 64MB of SDRAM, a 12 GB hard drive and a Pentium II processor running at 333 MHz. I am trying to put FreeBSD 6.2 on this machine but have not had any luck. I've read the documentation, but stil can't seem to figure out what to do. I downloaded the ISO mage for the bootonly disk and checked that it using checksum.md5, then burned a disk image using InfrRecorder to a fresh CD-R. I set the bios on my HP to boot from the CDROM drive and put the disk in. It walks me through the installation process but never gives me a chance to exit. I select the Standard installation but get stuck shortly thereafter when I try to tell it to use the option to set up for a single user using the X-Window system. It won't let me select multiple elements like bin and library. I get stuck and then it never completes and won't let me out of the setup screen series. Please let me know if I am not providing enough information above. I welcome any help. Thanks. Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- /Peo -- - PGP signed/encrypted emails is prefered - -- [novice about this? ~ visit: www.gnupg.org] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
